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Simon Cowell convinces Mariah Carey to pull out of Strictly

16.11.09
Simon Cowell was named best TV judge at the annual Variety Awards only hours after it emerged he had convinced singer Mariah Carey to appear exclusively on the X Factor... more

A perfect CV may not even be enough to land a job

09.11.09
When you're hiring a new employee the candidate who looks best on their CV is not always the right person for the job, says Philip Delves Broughton... more

Unions are livid at Tory pay freeze

08.10.09
Union leaders are furious about Tory plans to impose a pay freeze on public sector workers to help cut the UK’s Everest-style debt mountain ... more

City Spy: Who is spinning fast over UKFI?

14.07.09
UK Financial Investments, the quango set up to look after taxpayer stakes in Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scoltand, is clearly unhappy about the amount of media attention it is attracting ... more

City Spy: In the business of making excuses

01.07.09
Lord Mandelson claims he was forced to delay the sale of a stake in Royal Mail because there are more pressing matters to deal with. Funny...... more

Orange and green neon signals end of a Red state

19.05.09
Few places can have celebrated India's election result with the kind of frenzy I saw as I arrived in Kolkata on Sunday night. But then again, few other places have endured 32 long years of Communist Party rule. ... more

Those who lie down with Hoggs

13.05.09
The revelations about MPs' expenses - Tories, in particular - has left a string of City folk looking red-faced... ... more

The bear market is not over yet, warns Dr Doom

21.04.09
The FTSE 100 was stuck close to 4000, down 1.72 at 3989.14 as the ­so-called Doctor Doom of the credit crunch said the recent strength of stock­markets was not a rally in shares but a “bear market rally”... more

Savoy 'up for sale' as Saudi owner's billions dwindle

16.04.09
The Savoy Hotel may soon be put up for sale because of huge losses suffered by its billionaire Arab owner... more

It's uncanny how police axe HQ after Iceland woe

31.03.09
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Gigolo who seduced BMW heiress boasted he read women 'like a map'

09.03.09
A Swiss gigolo who made a career out of conning some of Europe's wealthiest women was jailed for six years today for attempting to blackmail a German heiress... more

Market report: You will have to wait for cash, warns Tudor fund

02.12.08
One of America's biggest hedge fund operators has told customers they cannot have their money back - for the time being at least... more

Clash of storylines as Barclays faces acid test

20.11.08
A sticky weekend looms for the directors of Barclays ... more

Ex-Lehman star well out of BBC row

31.10.08
The latest recruit to the BBC Trust, the body that is immersed in the row about Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, is former star Lehman banker Anthony Fry... more

Cricket's new mogul is thriving on adversity

28.10.08
Cricket: In times of trouble, the Stanfords always come out on top. This Texan family have survived the Great Depression of the 1920s, the oil crisis of the 1980s and the current credit crunch... more

Pity poor Hank, dumbing down with George

29.09.08
What must it be like being Hank Paulson? One minute you’re the head of Goldman Sachs, surrounded by some of the smartest people on the planet, and the next...you’re trying to explain the economic crisis to George Bush... more

Nicole Kidman has a new title - Hollywood's most overpaid actress

11.09.08
As one of the Hollywood elite Nicole Kidman has garnered many an accolade in her career, but now she has a new title - Hollywood's most overpaid actress.... more

From a one-eyed shooter to a jailed drug addict, this is the true spirit of the games

07.08.08
The Beijing Olympics might not live up to the credo of 'faster, higher, stronger'. Here, Standard Sport takes a look at some of the Olympiad's more unusual competitors.... more

Dog days of summer: Julia Roberts takes a stroll with her pup in Malibu

28.07.08
Hollywood star Julia Roberts took time out to feel the sand between her toes during a afternoon at Malibu beach yesterday.... more

Kidman and Diaz 'top of the flops' for box office value... while Pitt and Aniston reign supreme

25.07.08
Nicole Kidman was today named as Hollywood's least value-for-money star, coming two places below Tom Cruise. The actress came bottom of Forbes magazine's annual Ultimate Star Payback League.... more

Will Smith tops Hollywood earners list with £40m salary... while Keira is the highest paid Brit with £16m

23.07.08
In his latest film, Will Smith plays a superhero fallen on hard times. In real life, he has never had it so good. ... more

Steel tycoon buys third property on Billionaire's Row

23.06.08
Lakshmi Mittal, Britain's richest man and a prominent Labour Party donor, has bought his third property in London's most expensive street for £70 million... more

Bringing sexy courtside: Becks hooks up with Justin Timberlake at Lakers basketball game

13.06.08
It was a meeting of two of the showbiz world's biggest male stars - and a sight to make the heart of most red-blooded females beat unseasonably fast... more

What's with the baggy jeans? Victoria Beckham dresses more like David in Disneyland

12.06.08
If it wasn’t for the sunglasses and the scowl, you’d be forgiven for not recognising Victoria Beckham as she stepped out for a family day trip in baggy jeans and T-shirt..... more

The Candys' make-a-pile driver

29.04.08
It is London's most expensive building site, a mini-village of hard-hatted construction workers that has condemned Knightsbridge to traffic hell for months... more

Billionaire London is home to 36 on Forbes richest list

06.03.08
London is the billionaire capital of Europe - with more of the super-rich living here than ever before... more

Bono - up close and horrible

04.03.08
The very act of entering the cinema and donning 3-D specs to watch U2 3D made critic Richard Godwin want to spoon his eyes out in protest.... more

Stones keep on rolling in music rich list

26.01.07
The Rolling Stones have topped the US music rich list for the second year running.... more

Nevermind Elvis, Kurt is king now

25.10.06
There has only ever been one king when it comes to dead celebrities raking in the cash. But Elvis Presley has been knocked off the top spot by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.... more

Ramsay's is flipping expensive

17.10.06
Gordon Ramsay's restaurant in Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, has been named London's most expensive. The average bill at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay comes to £117 a head.... more

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